now I understand why games had such a clean AA even with AA disabled when running at 240Hz on my old 240Hz monitor (I loved that monitor, too bad the dead pixels, had to return it ;/). The jaggies disappeared once everything was in motion, everything looked so clean. Also, @Silent_Buddha commented something along those lines.
As far as I’m aware, Rise of the Tomb Raider doesn’t have MSAA. It has SMAA and SSAA.
MSAA wouldn't do much regardless. It only works well in games with very low poly counts and, as already pointed out, minimal shading. It's a technology that should stay dead. SGSSAA though would be a welcome return as an option for high end GPUs.
Which modern games? Only one I have personally compared is FH 5 where TAA looks unquestionably better while running much faster. This is also one of the slower TAA solutions on the market.
A small amount of blur to almost eliminate the sea of flickering pixels is well worth it. Even with 8xMSAA it's a noisy, artifact ridden image.
I recall MSAA being pretty good in AC Black Flag, Unity, and Syndicate. Didn’t it look also good in Crysis 3?
Nope. All 4 were extremely aliased with only MSAA. Particularly the AC games.
well, DLSS is a glorified form of TAA, isn't it? Without the blur. I read that SGSSAA was discovered because of a driver side bug
It isn't just the transparent textures though that exhibit heavy aliasing. And even then, it takes 8xTRSSAA to begin to approach the image stability of TAA just for those specific textures.
videocardz.com
forum.beyond3d.com
Unlike in forward shading, MSAA in deferred shading has a lot of different implementation, ranging from old school to effectively selective super sampling.
